Research Strategy published

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century. In addition to highlighting the need to nurture and celebrate individual curiosity-driven research, the strategy sets out for UCL an innovative cross-disciplinary research agenda - designed to deliver immediate, medium- and long-term benefits to humanity - that is simultaneously extraordinary and in complete alignment with our fundamental values. Delivering a culture of wisdom. UCL will seize the opportunity - and fulfil its obligation - to marshal the breadth of its expert perspectives, in order to address issues in their full complexity and contribute to the resolution of the world's major problems. This will be achieved not just through the generation of knowledge, but also through the delivery of a culture of wisdom, that is an environment committed to the judicious application of knowledge for the good of humanity. Delivering a culture of wisdom, therefore, means drawing on the full range of our expertise. It requires a spirit of collaboration and a recognition that the contribution of which each of us is capable can be vastly greater when made in concert.